Principia Latina Microform

Author : Charles D'urban Morris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330060902
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Principia Latina written by Charles D'urban Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principia Latina: An Introduction to the Latin Language This book is the result of a conviction that if the Latin language is to be well learned in the time usually devoted to its study in this country, it is necessary that the whole subject should be simplified, and that if possible the number of separate facts which have to be remembered should be diminished. It is not denied that many of the grammars and introductory exercise books in general use contain sufficiently full and correct statements of these separate facts, but it is believed that in none of them are the facts classified in the most scientific way, and that in none is the most judicious method adopted of presenting them to the youthful mind. It seems to be considered that boys have plenty of time to learn, first the Latin equivalent for an English word for one thing, its mode of declension or conjugation for another, its gender for a third, and the quantity of its vowels for a fourth, and that it is unnecessary to try to present the facts in such a way as that in recollecting one they shall recollect all. It seems again not to have occurred to the framers of the books in use that the lengthy statement of rules of syntax not only renders the acquisition of them by young people a work of enormous labor, and of nearly infinite time, but that the same lengthy statement almost certainly precludes the efficient use of them when acquired. For what teacher, even the most indefatigable, can call upon his pupils to give the rules for the various constructions of nouns and verbs which occur in a lesson, when the mere enunciation of them in the most rapid and unthinking way involves as great an expenditure of time as can be devoted to the whole recitation? The consequence of this want of condensation is believed to be, in most cases, that practically the only analysis to which a lesson is subjected is that which is commonly called "parsing;" i.e., no more is in general attempted than to ascertain whether the pupils know in what case, tense, or mood any noun or verb appears. This, though of course an absolutely essential element in the true grammatical analysis, can only be regarded as subsidiary to that higher insight which understands the logical, nay, the almost mathematical necessity of the employment of one form rather than another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.